The UK National Screening Committee (UK-NSC), the BMA, and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have recently expressed concern about the potential harms of healthcare screening.12 Many direct-to-consumer tests are unreliable and inaccurate, and it is impossible for people to distinguish between …

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